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“This year marked the 10th anniversary of the horrible Supreme Court court decision known as Citizens United… We shouldn’t just accept a political system of the lobbyist, by the corporation and for the bottom line.” -Maine State Sen. @justinchenette
“Wall Street, the health insurance industries, the pharmaceutical industries, they’re going to be fine. But it’s little people like us who don’t have anyone, we don’t have the big lobbyists… We have been left behind.” –@SenTroyJackson
An election watchdog group says new documents from a former insider at Cambridge Analytica reveal illegal coordination between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and a billionaire-funded pro-Trump PAC, @garanceburke reports. https://t.co/B7Sn4eaPGi
Is this a democracy or an oligarchy? Sheldon Adelson, a multi-billionaire, is contributing $176 million to elect candidates who represent the rich and powerful.
Billionaires should not be buying elections. We must overturn Citizens United and move to public funding of elections.
I think it's a reasonable argument that public polling is overcompensating for 2016 and that's why we are seeing a sometimes irreconcilable discrepancy.
@WestCoastGadfly We all have to draw the line somewhere. I’ll work the rest of my life to support progressives I believe in like AOC and Bernie.
I won’t sacrifice my morals for a 0.1% chance that Hakeem Jeffries is Speaker next year instead of Pelosi.
Good luck.
@WestCoastGadfly Hearsay = two separate waves of die hard progressive staffers that went public after quitting the campaign, including several I know.
Let’s beat Pelosi in two years by supporting someone who isn’t a horrible person.
"In 2016, Kremlin-linked money was flowing through the GOP. Whose court made that possible? It was John Roberts. Roberts gave us Citizens United and let the dark money flow. That's not democracy." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnation https://t.co/EeEqePy5Ye
Here's the state of American democracy. You get one vote for president. So does Sheldon Adelson. Except—being a multibillionaire—he gets to invest $176 million to elect candidates who represent the rich. We must overturn Citizens United and move to public funding of elections.
At no point in your rambling, incoherent [story] were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this [country] is now dumber for having [read] it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
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